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Re: Killing an app on X


  • Subject: Re: Killing an app on X
  • From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:51:28 -0600

at 2002 05 14, 15:26 -0700, they whom i call Jon Pugh wrote:
One of the boys here asked me how to kill an app with AppleScript on X. I thought others might like to see how.

on forceQuit(appName)
set pid to word 1 of (do shell script ("ps -xo,pid,command | grep \"" & appName & "\" | head -n 1"))

i suggest changing that to "ps -xwwo,pid,command ..." to
avoid a problem where commands with very long path names are
truncated, causing the grep to fail.

--
steve harley email@hidden
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